Building an enterprise web site presents a unique set of challenges. In this session, we’ll review IBM’s development of the NCL.com site, focusing on challenges and solutions. We will discuss using open source in the enterprise, the impact of open source support contracts, integrating with enterprise systems such as itinerary data, pricing, reservations, shore excursions, geotargeting, and search, integrating with technologies such as Endeca and Flash, defining a complex content model in Drupal and migrating legacy CMS data, staging and deploying content, structuring and being efficient with large development teams (up to 30 team members), working with many content contributors, hosting within an enterprise infrastructure, caching and content delivery networks, code deployments, monitoring, load testing and integrating Agile practices.


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

Producer: Rob Shea
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: en
Keywords: drupalcon chicago 2011; drupalcon; drupal; intermediate; business and strategy; enterprise; ibm; norvegian cruies

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